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General Overview

At the Burlington DCF Regional School, we seek to empower and provide the best instructional program to our students. Our mission is to promote pride, spirit, service, and achievement amongst the student population. At Burlington DCF Regional School, our goal is to promote self-sufficient leaders in our community and help make the world a better place.

The school provides a year-round alternative educational program TEC (transitional educational center) and Project TEACH (teen education and child health) to meet the needs of at risk youth!

 

Description of Programs

PROJECT TEACH
The DCF Regional School Burlington Campus – Project TEACH is an alternative, year round education program for expectant or parenting teens. The Project TEACH program provides students with specialized academic instruction, life and parenting skills and career guidance. The program has an on-site licensed nursery which provides care for the student’s infants and toddlers, ages six weeks to two and a half years. The program strives to help each student receive a diploma from their high school while giving them the skills needed to create a positive life for themselves and their children.  

The Project TEACH program seeks to:

  • Provide parenting skills and supports to strengthen families.

  • Individually-designed education plans that support students’ strengths to meet their academic, social, and career needs.

  • Provide practical, everyday-life technology applications.

  • Teach students alternatives to anti-social behaviors through conflict resolution and programs to prevent gang involvement and substance abuse.

  • Facilitate community linkages for pre and post natal services and assist students in their transition to post-secondary education, training, and employment.

  • Provide each student with an educational program based on the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, the Common Core State Standards, and the graduation requirements of her local high school.


Transitional Education Center (TEC)

The TEC program is a:

  • Community-based, State-operated alternative school designed to meet the needs of court-involved and other at-risk youth from the ages 14 through 21, giving them the skills needed to create a positive life, and to assist in promoting successful reintegration into future school, work, and community endeavors.

  • Students are primarily referred by New Jersey Department of Children and Families’ (DCF) Child Protection and Permanency and Children’s System of Care, community partnerships, county juvenile and family courts, or their local school district.

  • TEC is a collaborative effort among DCF’s Office of Education, the courts and local school districts to support and encourage each student to earn a diploma from their local district high school.

 

Reaching Students

The Nurtured Heart Approach
The Nurtured Heart Approach consists of a set of strategies that assist children and adults in further developing self-regulation and has been found to be effective with individuals of all ages. It focuses on transforming the way someone perceives themselves, and the world around them. Individuals learn to understand that they will receive endless amounts of praise, energy, recognition and reward through the positive behavior they display, and this supports building a positive portfolio of themselves, which is referred to as “Inner Wealth™.” Promising Path to Success 2.0 Grant is supporting us in integrating this approach with staff and families.


Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) Team
Collaborative problem solving team, is a team of credentialed professionals that follow a series of coordinated steps to solve student issues involving academics, social/emotional and medical issues.

 

Community Partnerships/Programs

Burlington County Action Program – Strengthening Families
Strengthening Families is an evidence-based approach that provides training and guidance which engages and supports the parents/families of infants and young children.

Burlington County Connection Program/Health Families – TIP Program
Healthy Families-TIP is a parenting and support program.  Students/families receive an in depth assessment of their needs and concerns.  Based on that assessment, students/families are offered support through their home/school visitation component.  Home/school visitation services include information on child development, positive parenting practices, and child health and safety.

ASPIRE Youth Development  
Prepares out-of-school young adults ages 16-24 (OSY) to make a successful transition into self-sufficiency and financial independence, through high school equivalency/academic support; work experience leading to career opportunities; career skills training; and personal supportive services.  Through our strategic collaboration with Rowan College at Burlington County Workforce Development Institute (RCBC-WDI); Rowan College at Burlington County Adult Basic Education (RCBC-ABE); Innovative Staffing & Business Solutions; Oaks Integrated Care; Burlington County American Job Center; PNC Bank; and other key partners, participants have access to a variety of supports critical for their success. 

Generations Family Success Center
The Generations Family Success services include employment, information and referral, parent education, health care, parent-child activities, life skills training and advocacy and housing.  They also have a Diaper Derby in which the students participate in twice a month.

NJ SNAP-Ed 
NJ SNAP-Ed is a Cooperative Program aimed at improving nutrition and increasing physical activity through a series of eight evidence-based, behaviorally-focused nutrition education lessons in a series of classes offered throughout the year.

Nurse – Family Partnerships
Nurse-Family Partnerships is an evidence-based community health program that helps transform the lives of vulnerable mothers pregnant with their first child. Each mother is partnered with a registered nurse early in her pregnancy and receives ongoing nurse home visits that continue through her child’s second birthday.  Nurse – Family Partnerships also provides workshops for the students throughout the year.

WIC Program  
WIC provides nutrition assessment and counseling, free WIC food vouchers for use at local food markets, breastfeeding support, referrals for health care, immunization screening, and The Farmer’s Market Program.

Prevent Child Abuse – New Jersey
Prevent Child Abuse – New Jersey (PCA-NJ) promotes great childhood, positive parenting and healthy child development.  PCA-NJ meets with the students on a weekly basis providing education to help nurture, develop and sustain healthy children.

Southern NJ Perinatal Cooperative 
SNJPC is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) coalition of healthcare professionals and consumers licensed by the NJ Department of Health as the Maternal and Child Health Consortium serving the seven counties of South Jersey. Our mission is to improve perinatal and pediatric health for those living in South Jersey including Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem counties. Guided by a regional perspective, we support collaboration and respect for the diversity of voices concerned about the health of families. We work to improve the region’s health by educating communities, advocating for system improvements and engaging with stakeholders. SNJPC addresses every element of care, from the individual to the health care system to policymakers.

 

DCF Regional School - Burlington Campus
704 Woodlane Road
Mt. Holly, NJ 08060
Tel: (609) 267-7595
Fax: (609) 267-1931